Raw Foodist and Vegan Nutrition Deficiencies

Diana — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 23:17:27 +0000

The following is an article on vegan nutrition by David “Avocado” Wolfe, world renowned raw food expert, author, lecturer and of course, raw foodist. In the following article he talks about raw food and vegan nutrition deficiencies and how to combat them with the right foods and supplements.

“Over the last 20 years I have experienced various dietary lifestyles, including being a junk foodist, an ethical omnivore, then a vegetarian, then a vegan, a raw-foodist, and now a superfoodist. After years of dietary repair, I feel that I have completely recovered from my first 18 years of the “anything goes” Standard American Diet as well as completely healed myself of all past physical injuries.

My dietary transformation happened when I was 18 or 19 and was living at a University away from my family home. For the first time ever, I began purchasing my own food. I realized through the process of elimination that something I was buying was not agreeing with my digestion. That “something” turned out to be “milk, cheese, and eggs” – in essence – dairy products. Due to the discovery of this food allergy (which affects millions of people), I stopped consuming dairy products completely. After a few weeks, I thought it would be appropriate to begin to read about nutrition in order to be sure to have enough “calcium and protein” which I was no longer getting from dairy products. I began reading nutrition books: dozens of them. This led to the discovery of a deep, all-consuming passion I have for the subject of nutrition and eventually led to the creation of Sunfood.com and my career.

After reading nearly every book I could find on nutrition, vegetarianism, veganism, raw foods, superfoods, and herbs, and after over 1500 public presentations on the subject of ideal diets and human health as well as interacting with tens of thousands of people specifically on this subject, I have concluded (as have most others in our field) that the moral ethics of vegetarianism, veganism, and raw-foodism are wonderful and an intrinsic part of creating peace and health on Earth for all beings as well as a clean and sustainable future for all.

However, I have concluded, as have many others, that serious health conditions can develop as a result of improper nutrition due to unbalanced omnivore, vegetarian, vegan, and raw-food diets.

Dozens of factors are involved in creating nutritional imbalances as well as nutritional deficiencies including: daily stress levels, pregnancy, candida, disease conditions, special needs due to age-related nutritional requirements, metabolic differences in human genetics, the uniqueness of the human soul as it expresses itself through the physical body, physical injury recovery, drug addictions, etc. All of these factors must be accounted for and sufficient nutrition must be provided to meet these factors. On top of this, I believe that these challenges can and should be solved with high moral and ethical considerations. That is the basis of this report. By reading this report and maintaining a “solution oriented” perspective you will be able to greatly benefit from years of research by simply adding into your diet some of the foods, herbs, and superfoods mentioned. In fact, I know that by taking action on the information found here and the foods recommended, you will have the best day ever.

The key nutrients that standard American food consumers, as well as conscious omnivores, vegetarians, vegans, and raw-foodists may be missing and how I (and my company Sunfood.com) ethically solve these deficiencies are as follows:

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As much I support the ethics of vegetarianism, veganism, and raw foodism, I am bound by an equally great or even greater moral obligation to give people the complete truth as best as I understand it as a health professional with all my years of direct, personal experience.

Please keep in mind that I have been a raw-foodist since 1994. My company Sunfood.comhas pioneered enormous advances in vegetarian and vegan nutrition over the last 13 years. I currently run four companies and directly employ over 30 people. In addition to that my team and I still conduct over 80 educational events each year. I have written four books (The Sunfood Diet Success System, Eating for Beauty, Naked Chocolate: The Astonishing Truth About the World’s Greatest Food, and Amazing Grace: The Nine Principles of Living in Natural Magic). I run two new sophisticated farming projects in remote regions of the world. I have traveled the world constantly for over 13 years and have not been in one place for more than four weeks in all that time.

From all this you have probably concluded that I am under a tremendous amount of responsibility and stress. In spite of all this, I am in perfect physical health. I never get tired, worn out, sick, etc. Sometimes I stay up for 2 or 3 days in a row without sleeping more than an hour a night. My immune system has never been stronger, my reflexes are as fast or faster than when I was 16 years old. I am more flexible than ever before. I am never in pain.

My commitment to ethical solutions to the world’s food challenges is not a joke. Review my track record and decide for yourself. I believe we can find moral and ethical solutions to every challenge we face including those surrounding food and diet. I believe that we must eat more plants in the food chain and let our bird, reptile, amphibian, and mammal friends pursue life, liberty, and happiness without our wholesale slaughter of their beauty. I believe we must discover and implement real solutions as quickly as possible so that we may all enjoy a healthy and prosperous future. Most importantly, I believe that these issues must be discussed openly and clearly so all confusion is removed. “

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Raw Foodist and Vegan Nutrition Deficiencies